A lone English girls' passion for healthy eating, exercising, and living!

Almost there…

…yes, only 1 more full day, then my exam will be over and my first deadline will have been ticked off 🙂 2 big weights GONE! Then, on Wednesday evening, Carter and Kovac arrive, and I’m going to be driving home specially, just to see them! I even picked up a cute little mouse toy in preperation 😀

I had a truly delightful afternoon – I took a trip to my own personal Mecca:

Yes, the supermarket, the Holy Grail, the King of all Buildings! Especially this one, Waitrose, because yet again, I picked up the elusive Squash-That-Isn’t-Butternut-Squash-Squash!! It was Crown Prince on the menu today (personally I think it looks and tastes exactly like kabocha squash, but I’m sure squash experts would disagree) so I nabbed one sharpish. And I got a fancy new vegetable I’ve never seen before (reduced to clear of course) which I can’t even remember the name of – it’ll make an appearence tomorrow! You know what else I love about Waitrose? They have an amazing cafe with all these groovy looking cupcakes – like proper pretty ones, they look like they’re from The Hummingbird Bakery or something! One of these days I’m going to get one 😀

It had a lovely texture – thick and smooth and REALLY GOOD – but it tasted almost bitter!? Not milky or particuarly choclatey at all! But all the same, it was worth eating – and I got 3 more to get through before the 30th (sell by date) so expect to see again. I also had a hot chocolate in this beautiful mug:

It’s never the wrong time of year for some christmas cheer!!

I actually managed to cook a little bit today. While I was home over the weekend, I re-discovered some tofu which was buried deep in the freezer, so I brought it back with me. I cut the block in half, and mariated half of it in soy sauce, paprika and agave nectar, all ready for tonights dinner…to go with it, I did 50g (dry weight) bulghar wheat, which was cooked with 1/2 a low salt stock cube, a shallot, cinnamon and paprika:

I also roasted up some parsnip, garlic, and the beautiful squash!

I stir fried the tofu for about 5 or 6 mins:

Til it was really golden and starting to char a bit. Then, dinner was served!

WHHHYY does tofu get such bad press?? I’m telling ya, this tofu was AMAZING! It was SO tasty, better than the smoked tofu I raved about a week or so ago, better than any tofu I’ve ever had! When cooked right, tofu is just as good, if not better, than chicken or fish, I wish people would give it a chance..poor old tofu 😦

I actually think I might buy some more tofu and cook it like this for my mum – she’s a tofu hater but I reckon I could convert her….

I then spent an hour finishing off my Career Development plan, and saved it to my pendrive for printing and handing in tomorrow (thank goodness), and then – after some email help from my lovely lecturer – I think I worked out why I kept getting the wrong answer to my stats practice test. That was the thing that had realllyyyy been grinding my gears :s So I went to check it on the website, all full of confidence, and the site was down!! GRRG.

SO I entertained myself with my usual evening snack – the old greek yogurt/hot chocolate/dark coffee chocolate combo – and attempted to piece back together my beautiful bar of Lindt that seemed to have got broken in transit:

It’s all healed now 🙂 – well, minus the two pieces I nicked this evening!

Anyway, I’m going to go see if I can get the answers to this test again…fingers crossed!!